Those being sidelined made bigger news than those who were inducted in the Modi cabinet’s reshuffle here this evening.
Some of the biggest names in recent years—IT and Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad; health minister Harsh Vardhan and environment minister Prakash Javadekar—took a bow.
In all 43 new ministers took the oath in which 36 were new faces and seven got promotions.
No less than 20 per cent ministers—a fifth of the council of ministers—were dropped though it’s believed that the Big Four—Union ministers for home, defence, foreign affairs and finance—would remain unchanged.
The following are the new ministers who are minister from today onwards, the portfolios to be announced in due course.
1. Narayan Rane
2. Sarbananda Sonowal
3. Dr. Virendra Kumar
4. Jyotiraditya M Scindia
5. Ramchandra Prasad Singh
6. Ashwini Vaishnaw
7. Pashupati Paras
8. Kiren Rijiju
9. Raj Kumar Singh
10.Hardeep Singh Puri
11.Mansukh Mandaviya
12.Bhupender Yadav
13.Parshottam Rupala
14.G. Kishan Reddy
15.Anurag Singh Thakur
16.Pankaj Choudhary
17. Anupriya Singh Patel
18.Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel
19. Rajeev Chandrasekhar
20.Shobha Karandlaje
21.Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
22. Darshana Vikram Jardosh
23. Meenakshi Lekhi
24. Annapurna Devi
25.A. Narayanaswamy
26.Kaushal Kishore
27.Ajay Bhatt
28.B. L. Verma
29.Ajay Kumar
30.Chauhan Devusinh
31.Bhagwanth Khuba
32.Kapil Moreshwar Patil
33.Pratima Bhoumik
34.Dr. Subhas Sarkar
35.Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
36.Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
37.Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
38.Bishweswar Tudu
39.Shantanu Thakur
40.Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
41.John Barla
42.Dr. L. Murugan
43.Nisith Pramanik
Some of the youngest new ministers and a little bio on them—their age in bracket—is as below:
1. Nisith Pramanik (35)
The youngest in the new Modi government cabinet is the 35-year-old Pramanik who is a Lok Sabha MP for Cooch Behar in West Bengal. A BCA degree holder, Pramanik has also worked as an Assistant Teacher in a primary school.
2. Shantanu Thakur (38)
Shantanu Thakur is also a Lok Sabha MP from Bongaon in West Bengal and is serving his first term as an MP. He is a BA degree holder and also has a diploma in hospitality management.
3. Anupriya Singh Patel (40)
Singh is a Lok Sabha MP from Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh and has previously served as the Minister of State for Health under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She has also served as an MLA before.
4. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar (42)
Dr Pawar is a Lok Sabha MP for Dindori in Maharashtra and is serving her first term as an MP. She has served as a Member of Nashik Zila Parishad and has also worked for the eradication of malnutrition and providing clean drinking water. She was a medical practitioners before joining public life.
5. Dr. L. Murugan (44)
Dr. Murugan served as a lawyer at the Madras High Court for 15 years before joining public life. He was also the Vice-Chairman of the National Commission of Scheduled Castes from 2017 to 2020.
6. John Barla (45)
Barla is a Lok Sabha MP for Alipurduars in West Bengal and is serving his first term as an MP. He has worked for the rights i tea garden workers and had himself started as a tea garden worker at the age of 14.
